text: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Cultures of Mathematics and Logic 9-12 November 2012 Institute for Logic and Cognition Sun Yat-Sen University Guangzhou, China http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/loewe/Guangzhou2012/ All researchers working on various aspects of "Cultures of Mathematics and Logic", including, but certainly not limited to, philosophers, sociologists, historians of mathematics, mathematicians, and researchers in mathematics education, are cordially invited to submit their one page abstracts by the submission deadline of 30 June 2012 (see below for details). DESCRIPTION OF THE CONFERENCE. Mathematics and formal reasoning are fundamental building blocks of knowledge, essential for science, technology, policy-making and risk-management. Mathematical practice is a rich phenomenon of human activity, with subtle differences between various cultures: here, the word culture can refer to national cultures, but also cultural differences in different historical periods, in different strata of a given society, in different social settings. And yet, the public perception of mathematics is of an apersonal subject with little or no human interaction, based on a false picture of a science of pure thought and deduction, with almost no interaction or visible activity. In a move away from these traditionalist positions, philosophers and social scientists have recently become more interested in studying mathematical and logical practice, or, to be precise, different mathematical and logical practices. Our conference will focus on this plurality of viewpoints, studying the various cultures of mathematics and logic, and involve several disciplines such as philosophy, sociology, psychology, cognitive science, history of mathematics, mathematics education, and linguistics. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS. * Andrea Bender. Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. * Karine Chemla. Equipe Recherches Epistémologiques et Historiques sur les Sciences Exactes et les Institutions Scientifiques (REHSEIS), Paris, France. * Christian Greiffenhagen. University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom. * Shirong Guo. Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, China. * Juan Pablo Mejía Ramos. Rutgers University, Piscataway NJ, United States of America. * Reviel Netz. Stanford University, Stanford CA, United States of America. * Zhaoshi Zeng. Sun Yat-Sen University. Guangzhou, China. IMPORTANT DATES. Abstract submission deadline: 30 June 2012 Notification of authors: 30 July 2012 Conference: 9-12 November 2012 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION. All researchers are encouraged and invited to submit their abstracts until the deadline of 30 June 2012 via the easychair submission page at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cml2012 Please submit the abstract either in the "abstract" field of the easychair submission site or as a one-page PDF submission. POST-CONFERENCE PUBLICATION. All authors of papers presented at the conference will be encouraged to submit a full version to a post-conference publication volume. The deadline for submission of full papers will be in early 2013. All papers submitted to the post-conference proceedings will be refereed to high journal standards, and acceptance as a presentation is no guarantee that the post-conference paper will be published. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE. Mihir Chakraborty, Jadavpur University, India; Shuchun Guo, Chinese Academy of Science, China; Joachim Kurtz, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany; Brendan Larvor, University of Hartfordshire, United Kingdom; Benedikt Löwe, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Martina Merz, Universität Luzern, Switzerland; Dirk Schlimm, McGill University, Canada; Ju Shier, Sun Yat-sen University, China LOCAL INFORMATION. Guangzhou, known historically as Canton, is located in southern China on the Pearl River, about 120 km north-northwest of Hong Kong. With over 12 million inhabitants, it is the third largest city in China (after Shanghai and Beijing) and the largest city of southern China. In the month of November, expected temperatures are between 15 and 24 degrees. Baiyun International Airport is a major transportation hub with many national and international airlines (for instance, Air France, China Southern Airlines, Emirates, Lufthansa, etc.). In addition, Guangzhou is easy to reach from Hong Kong with its international airport.


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And with 4 boutiques in Paris proper it's pretty easy to stumble on a shop. I was smitten with French chocolate pots, I found this lovely number at Vaissellerie...The nice thing is they have tons of stuff to make you feel you're having a very Frenchie petit dejeuner like these chocolate bols. Or these polka-dot cups.
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Mmm one of my favorite go-to foods on cold, dreary days are soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. Nothing screams "comfort" more than this delicious duo and I can almost guarantee it'll perk you right up from however you were feeling before.
As most of you know, I wasn't having the greatest of weeks last week and so I did what any normal person would do when they realize their identity has been stolen and someone was trying to go on shopping sprees with their hard-earned money…I took the day off from work. Ok so truth is my car was broken down and I literally had no means of transportation, BUT it was still the perfect day to sleep in, catch up on my guilty pleasures (aka Real Housewives) and attempt to cheer myself up.
Thankfully I didn't turn to a gallon of vanilla ice cream to drown my sorrows in, I decided to try this tomato-basil soup recipe that had been sitting on my kitchen counter for weeks now. It truly was the greatest pick-me-up and took me only 20 minutes to throw together. Now THAT'S my kind of lunch!
Cheers to rainy days and good food!
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 1/2 cups chopped onion
- 3 garlic cloves, chopped
- 3/4 cup fresh basil, chopped
- 1 (28 oz) can fire-roasted diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1/2 cup (4 oz) 1/3-less fat cream cheese, cut into cubes
- 1 1/2 cups fat-free milk
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. pepper
- In a large saucepan over medium-high heat, heat olive oil and saute the chopped onion for 3 minutes, until translucent. Stir in garlic and cook for an additional minute. Add tomatoes and basil, bringing to a boil. Stir in cream cheese until melted.
- Place mixture in a blender or food processor and blend until smooth. Return to saucepan and stir in milk, salt and pepper. Return to medium-high heat and cook for 2 minutes. Serve with toasted bread or a sandwich, enjoy!
Serving Size: 1 1/4 cup • Calories: 173 • Fat: 9.3 g • Carbs: 15.9 g • Fiber: 1.7 g • Protein: 6.1 g • WW Points+: 5 pts


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Question: I'm sure you have tons of letters in your mailbag about the "twist" on The Good Wife. For once, this was not over-hyped at all. I've always stood by the idea that the creators of shows are artists who have the right to do whatever they want with their characters, and we should be more angry with gratuitous plot twists or inconsistent character development than things that just make us sad. It is a "melodrama," after all, and entertainment does not mean that you will be made happy all the time. That said, I have had to rein myself in about Will's death, which might rank as the most upsetting TV death in my long history of TV watching. Unlike, say, the death of Joyce Summers on Buffy, Will and Alicia have seemed integral to the plot trajectory of the show, and now I feel like a main source of my pleasure is gone.
I read someone say that writers have somewhat of a "contract" with the audience, and while I totally disagreed with the poster that this means that the audience should always be happy, I do think the case of Will is tricky. I know the writers had to write him out, but I can't help but feel that him going to prison or moving away to come back at the end of the show's run would have been better for the overall story, even if it would have had less of a dramatic impact on the show. I feel like this means Alicia won't get her happy ending, and maybe the show really wasn't about that, but as much as I respect the writing on The Good Wife, I feel like something has been lost that can't ever be replaced. So on the one hand, good job to Good Wife for the punch to the gut. On the other hand, as good as the writers are, I am not sure I have faith in the endgame anymore. Your thoughts? — Rebecca
Matt Roush: It's definitely a tricky situation, and fans have every right to be shaken, as I was, over this shocking and (thankfully) surprising development — which generated quite a bit of interesting mail, as you'd expect — but as exec producer/writer Michelle King said last week at a panel discussion in New York during an advance screening of this Sunday's "The Last Call" episode, "Anything else [but Will's death] would have been a little bit too easy." The Kings said they studied other major cast departures (given the Julianna Margulies connection, George Clooney's ER exit comes first to mind) before making the fatal call, but taking this very bold and undeniably risky step opens up so many more storylines, both personally and professionally, than if Will had anticlimactically faded off into the periphery as might have happened once Josh Charles chose not to renew his contract. The goal here is to produce powerful drama, and by Will staying this long into the show's remarkable fifth season, we got to enjoy the explosive conflicts in the first half of the year when the firms split, and now we're experiencing the emotionally tangled aftermath of this sudden, awful tragedy (starting with Sunday's wrenching hour). Caring this deeply about what's happening and what could possibly happen next is all I could ask from a great TV drama. Lose faith? Not likely.
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Question: I can't seem to stay away from spoilers between Twitter and the TV-related websites I frequent, but the latest episode of The Good Wife took me completely by surprise, so it will go down as one of my most shocking TV viewing experiences ever. I'm sad to see Will Gardner go, and looking forward, the story arcs set up prior to his death seem like they may fall a little flat without him (less conflict with the law firm split without Will; less of a prosecution case in the voter fraud without Will), but I am willing to wait it out. I did have a question about the final Alicia/Will scene (which we obviously did not know was final at the time). It seemed out of character for Alicia given all that has transpired to seek Will out at the courthouse solely to give him a heads-up on his client. Was it really her extending an olive branch or do you think there were other motives (one, she knew she was being trailed and wanted to throw the prosecutor off; or two, she wanted to attempt to get on friendlier terms with Will knowing he was the key to the voter fraud case)? We may gain insight into this in the episodes to come. What a twist for one of my favorites, though! — Carrie
Matt Roush: To address one of your earlier points, I believe Will's death could make the relationships between the warring firms even more fascinating, as a catalyst to bring characters back together (or not) in even more emotionally charged ways. And I'm not sure Alicia's actions were all that out of character when she tipped Will off about his clients looking to replace him mid-trial. For all of the enmity between them after the split, Alicia hasn't lost all sense of professional duty and personal obligation. The show in its biggest picture is about her walking that ethical tightrope in all of her relationships, never more complicated than when it involves Will. The guilt she carries, so evident in Sunday's aftermath episode, is palpable, and even if there were ulterior motives (the voter-fraud case) in her approaching Will, the ambiguity is part of the drama. It seems clear to me that Alicia, while reflecting on how she joined the firm (with Will's support) in the recent flashbacks, was beginning to wonder if she could mend this broken friendship, and having that possibility taken away so violently is one of the most upsetting aspects of this entire situation.
Question: For me, what made Will's death so shocking and devastating was that it came out of nowhere. With Will dying mid-season and Carter dying on Person of Interest mid-season, do you think now the networks will pick up on the trend of killing main characters mid-season then during May sweeps? — Aadil
Matt Roush: Let's hope so. The most impactful character deaths tend to be the ones you don't see coming, and the high body count at the end of any given season tends to be a bit wearying in its predictability. Which doesn't mean I want it to be open season on killing main characters at the random drop of a hat. These moments should be sparing and earned. Otherwise, they too will begin to look like business as usual, which would truly be tragic.
On a similar note, quite a bit of my mail, including from my frequent correspondent Dorothy, asked directly: "Did you have any inkling it was going to happen, or were you as shocked as I was?" Answer: Yes, in this case I was absolutely floored. I had an inkling something major was going to go down — one of the editors at work had been tipped off, and wanted to make sure I didn't miss the episode (as if!) — but everyone at work and elsewhere knows to protect me from plot spoilers whenever possible. (In a time when I was more reporter than critic, I was plugged in to the point that I had stories ready for the day after Andy Jr. was killed on NYPD Blue and Kimberly Shaw returned from the dead on Melrose Place, but I didn't spoil those moments in what was then a mostly pre-Internet culture.) But even if I had had a clue what was about to happen to Will, I believe I would still have been affected by the way this particular story went down.
[Note: The following is a question that came in well before the death of Will but addresses a larger question about the current season of The Good Wife. I decided not to post it last week, feeling it would look a bit beside the point after what happened last Sunday, but it's still a subject well worth addressing.]
Question: I had to write in to say that I have stopped watching The Good Wife due to the dramatic change in the direction of Alicia's character. I hate the storyline that had her stabbing her firm in the back and becoming their enemy. Her betrayal of the partnership by passing info to the associates was extremely unethical and without any redeeming features. I am not sure that the moniker "good" can be applied to her. I think many people have stopped watching the series due to Alicia's turn to the dark side. — Laura
Matt Roush: As someone who likes actual drama in my drama, I (and many other critics) have championed this season of The Good Wife as the most riveting storytelling anywhere on network TV. Alienating those who preferred the status quo may be an unfortunate side effect, but "Good" in the show's title has always been a relativistic, and even ironic, term in describing Alicia's journey through the moral ambiguities of the law and her relationships with her unfaithful husband and her then-boss Will, with whom she herself strayed. And while her branching out with Cary and the other associates to start their own rival firm can be seen as a professional betrayal, one of Alicia's motivations in doing this was to distance herself from Will to preserve her marriage, which some might see as a "good" thing. I will argue to the end that this show has earned the right to shake things up, and the results (while undeniably upsetting at times) have been exhilarating.
Question: I know that in a show called Hannibal, there are going to be many deaths. And I know that no one but Will and Hannibal is safe. I'm fine with that. I accepted all of the previous deaths. But — retroactive spoiler alert — I am having a really difficult time accepting Beverly's death in the March 21 episode. I understand the reasoning behind why they felt she had to die. It isolates Will more and shows him that accepting/soliciting outside help can have very dire consequences. However, I don't think it made any sense narratively, particularly for Beverly as a character. Why would she break into Hannibal's house looking for evidence? None of it would be admissible in court. Basically, even if she found something and took it away, all it would do would make it more difficult to catch him legally, as he would be alerted and even more careful and aware. Plus, she had literally just shown that by going over evidence she could find things that had been missed before. Why wouldn't she try that first, with all of the evidence they already had, rather than breaking into Hannibal's house? It seems to me like the writers were thinking "we need Beverly to die" and then messed with the story and her character to get the result they wanted, rather than starting with the character and the story and working from there.
Even this might not have bothered me so much except that it was in the same episode with Bella's non-death. Jack is often working. She very easily could have overdosed with morphine at home while he was at work. If she didn't want to do that, she could have overdosed in her car or some other location. It makes no sense for her to overdose at Hannibal's, as she liked him, and it could have put him in a very difficult spot if he were an ethical psychiatrist. She would have put him at risk for accusations of medical misconduct (as psychiatrists have to intervene when they think someone is a danger to themselves or others) and possibly assisted suicide. Again this feels to me like another situation where the writers wanted a certain result, so they didn't look too carefully at how they were using the characters to get there. Season 1 of Hannibal had amazing writing. I would never have expected lazy writing like this from them. I think that is the part that bothers me the most. I could have accepted Beverly's death (and Bella's non-death) if they had played out in better ways. Right now I am upset by it, though. What are your thoughts on that episode of Hannibal? — Meredith
Matt Roush: With Hannibal, I find myself so hypnotized by its tone of baroque and hallucinatory dread that this kind of literal nitpicking rarely occurs to me. It's probably best not to apply such normalistic standards to the storyline as if it were just another procedural — and on a side note, this is about the only time I've ever found it dramatically satisfying when a show's hero (Will Graham) is framed as the main suspect in a serial crime, thanks to the machinations of the diabolical Dr. Lecter. I take your point that Beverly's fate was a bit too close to the don't-go-in-the-basement-you-fool cliché of the typical doomed damsel, but I didn't have a problem with her breaking protocol by invading Hannibal's home, since the entire operation (including her collusion with Will) was seen as rogue. And I absolutely was on board with the Bella-Lecter scene in which he watched her die then ghoulishly revived her (against her will). Picking apart the ethical and legal implications is so beside the point. Much of Hannibal is a visual and poetically macabre meditation on death, and that's what I saw going on in that almost erotically charged moment. Nothing lazy about it. Which is another way of saying: If you're seeking realism in your crime drama, Hannibal might not be your best choice. (But why this isn't getting the sort of numbers generated by overheated poppycock like American Horror Story is beyond me.)
Question: On April 14, Syfy begins showing the six final episodes of Warehouse 13, which Aaron Ashmore stars in. It will by shown Mondays at 9/8c — airing directly opposite The Following, which stars Aaron's twin brother, Shawn. This appears to be the first time twins or siblings are on opposite networks at war with each other. Why are both networks creating a war of the Ashmores? And I saw the recent article about Claire Holt bailing out of the new show The Originals and that she might be back one day. Coupled with the bright new face of the show, Daniella Pineda, also having her character killed off, can this new show survive two important actresses bailing on the show? — Dean
Matt Roush: If I truly believed either Ashmore was the actual star of his respective series (no slight to their contributions), then you might have a point, but calling it a "war" goes a bit far. It is an odd coincidence, I'll concede, but that's more Syfy's issue for scheduling Warehouse's final mini-season up against The Following (which has never not aired in that time period), when Warehouse 13 could just as easily have aired earlier or later or even on a different night. For Ashmore devotees, that's what DVRs are for. As for The Originals, is anyone ever truly dead on a show like that? Losing Rebekah is a fairly significant blow, as she's one of the more appealing characters and Holt is one of the very few talented actors in that ensemble. But as Holt herself indicated, she is basically taking a time out for now, and there's no reason to think she won't come back to either New Orleans or Mystic Falls when and if the story calls for it.
Question: Do you have any insight/knowledge as to how permanent Claire Holt's departure from The Originals might be? She was one of the better parts of the show. I was relieved to see someone official refer to it as an "extended hiatus," but I wasn't sure if that had any truth to it — or was just something said to make fans feel better. Any idea if the departure was acrimonious? Taking her reasons for leaving at face value, her decision to leave less than one season into a new show cannot have made producers happy. Will they want her back after that? — John
Matt Roush: I know nothing more about any of this than what has been reported — this isn't a gossip column — but I'm aware of nothing that would indicate there's any bad blood (so to speak) between her and the producers, who would almost certainly welcome her back when she's ready. Although whether she'd entertain a full-time move back to Georgia, where the show is filmed, is very much a personal decision, and seems a motivating factor for why she took this break in the first place.
Question: I'm curious to get your take on the renewal of The Following vs. Almost Human. As I look at the ratings, the two shows seem nearly identical in both overall numbers as well as the demo. Both star bankable movie stars at the center (although, let's be honest, Kevin Bacon is more a star than Karl Urban is, despite his movie creds) and both are serialized dramas. But as I watch both shows, I find the quality of Almost Human to be far superior to anything The Following has to offer. In fact, Almost Human has a much better ensemble, far more interesting ideas and they are in the process of building an intriguing mythology. The Following lacks all of that and it's grim to boot. Almost Human at least knows how to vary the tone in an episode so that it's not constant terror and horror, which over time wears on me greatly. So why is it that, if all things ratings being equal, the lesser show in terms of creativity is renewed while the clearly superior show has to sweat it out? This seems like a poor decision on the part of the Fox execs — although, let's be honest, they haven't really treated Almost Human with the respect that it deserves. — Andrew
Matt Roush: You seem to be answering your own question. Despite heavy promotion during post-season baseball last fall, Almost Human seemed pretty much an afterthought on the Fox schedule, greatly overshadowed (understandably) by the success of Sleepy Hollow, and when it became clear this futuristic cop show wasn't going to be a breakout hit, it does seem as if Fox lost interest, and airing some episodes out of order didn't help that perception. The Following has a much more obvious (if also more squirm-inducing) hook, which generates quite a bit more media interest, though is hardly without its critics. And despite its flaws, there's more urgency to its outrageous storytelling. Looking at the recent numbers on an admittedly tough and overstuffed night, it looks like Fox may have been premature in its early renewal of The Following, whose own following isn't exactly growing, but I'm also not surprised they're taking a more wait-and-see approach with Human.
Question: Any news on The Mentalist? Do we know if we'll get a seventh season, of if the sixth one will be the last of the show? - Elisabetta
Matt Roush: At this point, it doesn't look like that decision will be made until CBS sets the new fall lineup in May. But given how unimpressive the reboot has been, it might be a mercy to not try to extend it yet another season (and the seventh would almost certainly be the last, as it was for earlier procedurals like Cold Case and Without a Trace). I wouldn't be surprised either way, but given how successful The Mentalist once was for CBS, it would be nice for the show to get at least a little bit of an actual send-off.
Question: Glee has had its ups and downs over the years, but the recent two episodes with the original cast (minus Cory Monteith) have been stellar. Almost makes me forgive the many missteps. What ever did happen to Sue Sylvester's baby, anyway? Had these been the final episodes, they would rank among the most satisfying series finales. It makes me sad to think that this show is continuing in New York. I realize that the untimely death of Monteith changed Ryan Murphy's plans, but the New York episodes began prior to Monteith's death, and they remind me of "Laverne & Shirley move to Los Angeles." Is there any show that has successfully pivoted so far from its original premise? And is there a chance that the plug will be pulled after this season despite the commitment for one more? — Steve
Matt Roush: A similar question arose this week concerning The Mentalist, which also executed a significant midstream reboot this season. What this kind of sea change usually signifies is an acknowledgement that the show is just about over, and in some cases has been known to result in an actual spin-off — think The Practice morphing into Boston Legal, or as a friend/colleague of mine reminded me, The Andy Griffith Show becoming Mayberry, RFD — though that probably won't be the situation here, given that these shows are pretty much gasping to the finish line. I agree up to a point that the last few Glee episodes gave the original cast a nice chance to take a final bow and to praise Mr. Schu as they laid the glee club to rest — a bit of a downer, that — although all of it coming at the expense of those poor kids from New Directions 2.0, who were turned comically/tragically into mere spectators for two entire episodes set at McKinley. (Not arguing with the choice, just underscoring how diminished Glee had become after the main characters graduated and split focus between Lima and New York.) I'm with you that the prospect of another full season of Glee set in New York feels like milking a dead cow — and a pantomime cow, at that — but the decision has been made and I'd be surprised if the network and studio reverse it. There are no doubt myriad business reasons for keeping the show afloat for another year, but no discernible creative ones.
Question: For three seasons, I watched the Winona character on Justified abuse, manipulate and just generally treat Raylan (a man she supposedly loves) like dirt. The writers must have gotten some nasty feedback from viewers because they tried so hard in Season 4 to reverse her generally snippy attitude. The end of Season 4 saw her life in danger and I assume was supposed to make viewers care. The character would've been better served the original Elmore Leonard way, which according to the books has Winona as an "absent" person in Raylan's life. I also assume that this will be the case by the end of the show in Season 6. Never saw what this character brought to the show except more "turmoil" to Raylan. And Lord knows, the writers have found enough story lines to keep Raylan very busy catching bad guys, which is why viewers watch. I found the scenes between the Ray-nona characters less than interesting, unlike the rest of the show. I'll miss Justified when it finishes up next season. Can't wait to see how everything happening this season between the major characters works out. What a great ride! — Susan
Matt Roush: "Turmoil" is drama, and if Winona were perfect, not only would she not fit in to the Justified universe, she'd be a lot less interesting to Raylan and anyone else. I'm a Natalie Zea fan, so am still rooting for there to be a way for her character to re-enter the picture in a compelling way in Justified's final season (which I'm hoping is an improvement over this year's rather scattered and uneven, though still enjoyable, narrative). But even if she stays mostly off screen, there should be a way to make that absence dramatic as Raylan's story comes to a close.
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Doc Rivers came back to the Celtics because he wanted to make one more run at it with this group, he believed that this unit had one more title in it.
Of course, there are a couple obstacles to that. For one, there's that Laker team that just beat the Celtics in the finals.
But Rivers still believes Boston was the better team when healthy, as he told John Thompson when he was on ESPN 980 in Washington D.C.
I hate the "what if" injury game. Doc, I'll counter your "what if Perkins was healthy for Game 7?" with a "What if Andrew Bynum had been healthy the entire series?" The what if game is circular.
But before Boston can worry about the Lakers, the Celtics have to get out of the East. And we all know that Miami is going to be good, including Rivers, but he wonders about their defense.
Will (the Miami trio) work? Eventually it will work. Will it work right away? I coach the Boston Celtics so I hope not. I do think people are all focusing on the wrong thing. I think everybody is talking about shots. Is there enough shots, will they have enough shots, will they be able to play together, whose going to take the last shot and that could cause turmoil, but I think the key for them is will they defend? Because if they defend and get stops, they're talented enough offensively to get points. The key for them is will they buy into being a defensive unit."
Rivers has one new big addition this season in Shaquille O'Neal - who may be key in getting past Miami in the playoffs, But Rivers is honest about how hard working Shaq into the Celtics system can be.
My biggest concern honestly coach is defensively because every time Shaq comes on the floor, everyone is going to run pick and roll and no one has been successful in figuring out how to use him and I'm no smarter than anyone else. That's all we've been focusing on this summer is trying to figure out what we're going to do in pick and rolls when he comes into the game."
That is about where the interview ended, as Rivers had to go to his local church and make an offering, light a candle and pray for his team to stay healthy.


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14 killed, dozens hurt in Chicago shootings
The shootings over the Fourth of July holiday weekend included eight incidents
Chicago: Extra police officers on Chicago's streets were not enough to quell a long weekend of violence that ended with 14 people shot to death and dozens more injured.
During a Monday news conference, just hours after two more people were shot to death earlier in the day, police superintendent Garry McCarthy said his department's best efforts could not prevent the bloodshed that spiked dramatically on Sunday. Chicago's total of 53 shooting incidents for the holiday weekend easily eclipsed Detroit and New York combined, which had a total of 46 shooting incidents, 10 of which were fatal.
"Going into the holiday weekend we had a plan, including putting hundreds more officers on the streets and what were the results?" McCarthy asked. "The results were a lot of shootings, a lot of murders, unfortunately."
The shootings over the Fourth of July holiday weekend included eight incidents that involved police, according to McCarthy. In five of those instances, officers shot at suspects. Two people — both 16 — were killed in those shootouts. McCarthy said that based on preliminary investigations, all of the officer-involved shootings appear to have been justified, including one in which officers fired after a suspect tried to run them over with his car.
Even with the weekend shootings, Chicago police are on pace with last year for officer-involved shootings, with 33 so far in 2014, compared with 35 at the same time last year, according to McCarthy.
The Associated Press took its tally of shooting deaths for the holiday weekend from the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, from Thursday through Sunday. The number of shooting incidents came from Chicago police and was for Thursday evening through Sunday. The two deaths early Monday morning were not included in the weekend totals.
McCarthy, who came to the third-largest US city from New York, used the opportunity to again highlight the number of guns that are on Chicago's streets. While Chicago has tough gun sales and possession ordinances, McCarthy maintains that Illinois needs stiffer penalties for people who violate gun laws.
McCarthy said his officers are seeing more suspects who are reluctant to throw down their guns when confronted by police because they're more concerned with harsh treatment from their gangs if they lose their weapons than the legal system if they are arrested with them.
"Possession of a loaded firearm is not even considered a violent felony in the state of Illinois for sentencing purposes," McCarthy said, noting that gangs, on the other hand, may severely beat a member who loses a gun.
The latest spate of shootings also indicates how dangerous the streets can be, particularly in the summer when the warm weather puts more people on the streets. McCarthy noted that nearly half of the 53 shooting incidents over the holiday weekend happened on Sunday, when temperatures climbed into the upper 80s Fahrenheit (low 30s Celsius).
Still, the superintendent stressed that even with the weekend deaths, Chicago has had fewer homicides as of July 6 (185) than it did for the same period last year (196). At the same time, he said, the city has had 46 more shooting incidents than last year.
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The Secretary may require the user or users of a road under the control of the Forest Service, including purchasers of Government timber and other products, to maintain such roads in a satisfactory condition commensurate with the particular use requirements of each. Such maintenance to be borne by each user shall be proportionate to total use. The Secretary may also require the user or users of such a road to reconstruct the same when such reconstruction is determined to be necessary to accommodate such use. If such maintenance or reconstruction cannot be so provided or if the Secretary determines that maintenance or reconstruction by a user would not be practical, then the Secretary may require that sufficient funds be deposited by the user to provide his portion of such total maintenance or reconstruction. Deposits made to cover the maintenance or reconstruction of roads are hereby made available until expended to cover the cost to the United States of accomplishing the purpose for which deposited: Provided, That deposits received for work on adjacent and overlapping areas may be combined when it is the most practicable and efficient manner of performing the work, and cost thereof may be determined by estimates: And provided further, That unexpended balances upon accomplishment of the purpose for which deposited shall be transferred to miscellaneous receipts or refunded.
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Transfer of Functions
For transfer of certain enforcement functions of Secretary or other official in Department of Agriculture under sections 532 to 538 of this title to Federal Inspector, Office of Federal Inspector for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, and subsequent transfer to Secretary of Energy, then to Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects, see Transfer of Functions note set out under section 533 of this title.


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As we celebrate 20 years since the launch of Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green in Japan, the next era of Pokémon games is being announced! Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon are coming out for systems in the Nintendo 3DS family in late 2016, with a new world, new Pokémon, and new adventures to discover!
Your new adventures in Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon will take place on the tropical islands of the Alola region! The Alola region centers around four islands rich in natural beauty and an artificial island. Many Pokémon that have never been seen before occupy these islands.
The world of Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon is filled with many colorful people in addition to the fascinating Pokémon. Meet some of the folks you'll encounter as you travel through the Alola region.
You will choose to be a hero or heroine in Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, and you can name yourself whatever you'd like. The story begins right after your character has moved to the Alola region. No sooner have you arrived than your adventures begin to unfold, and you'll meet many people and Pokémon as you grow and learn.
You can choose your gender and how you look!
Following in the tradition of previous games in the Pokémon series, players choose one of three special Pokémon to be their first partner. These are among the first Pokémon players will encounter in the game. In Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, players will be able to choose between the newly discovered Grass- and Flying-type Pokémon Rowlet, Fire-type Litten, and Water-type Popplio.
Rowlet can attack without making a sound! It flies silently through the skies, drawing near to its opponent without being noticed, and then lashing out with powerful kicks. It can also attack from a distance using the razor-sharp leaves that form part of its feathers.
Its visual abilities are impressive. The darkness of night is no obstacle to Rowlet! It can twist its neck nearly 180° from front to back so it can see directly behind itself. It has a habit of turning its head in battle to face its Trainer and receive instructions.
The move Leafage attacks an opponent by striking it with leaves. Rowlet knows this move from the moment it becomes your partner!
Logical but also passionate, Litten always remains coolheaded and doesn't show its emotions on the surface.
Litten can attack with flaming hairballs! Its fur is rich in oils and immensely flammable. Litten grooms itself by licking its fur, and then uses the collected fur as fuel for fireball attacks!
When the time comes for Litten to shed its old fur, it all burns up in a glorious blaze.
The move Ember attacks an opponent by firing a small flame at it. Litten knows this move from the moment it becomes your partner!
Popplio's swimming speed is known to exceed 25 mph. It's better at moving in the water than on land. Still, when it's on land, it takes advantage of the elasticity of its balloons to perform acrobatic stunts and jumps.
Popplio can snort out balloons made of water! Watch it spin water balloons into a playful battle strategy!
Both frivolous and hard-working, Popplio can easily get carried away—unleashing enough power in battle to make quite a spectacle! But Popplio's determined spirit means it can usually be found practicing hard on its balloon skills.
The Water Gun move attacks an opponent by firing a jet of water. Popplio knows this move from the moment it becomes your partner!
The Pokédex is a convenient tool that records information about the Pokémon you see and catch during your adventure. In Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, your character receives a special Pokédex from Professor Kukui to support you in your travels. It's known as the Rotom Pokédex, and it's inhabited by Rotom, a Pokémon with the power to reside in various electronic appliances. It does much more than record Pokémon info—it sparkles with its own personality. The Rotom Pokédex shows your current location and your next destination, and it also gives you advice on where to go next, based on the conversations you have with others! It's likely to be of great help to you in many parts of your adventure.
The Rotom Pokédex is an extremely rare device. There are only a few Trainers that have one, even in the Alola region.
Major updates are planned for Pokémon Bank to work with Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon.
Once Pokémon Bank has been updated, you'll be able to use it to transfer Pokémon you've caught in the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console versions of Pokémon Red, Pokémon Blue, and Pokémon Yellow into your copy of Pokémon Sun or Pokémon Moon. Pokémon from Pokémon Omega Ruby, Pokémon Alpha Sapphire, Pokémon X, and Pokémon Y can also be brought into Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon in the same way.
You will be able to use your existing Pokémon Bank account to transfer Pokémon from Pokémon Red, Pokémon Blue, and Pokémon Yellow to Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon. Due to certain limitations, it is recommended that you install Pokémon Red, Pokémon Blue, and Pokémon Yellow on the same Nintendo 3DS system as Pokémon Bank.
If for any reason you are not 100% happy with your purchase, we can provide you with a full refund or exchange if you return it to us within 7 days after you receive the goods. Conditions apply, please see our terms and conditions.


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Healthy Homes Cleaning and Restoration is a local Florida company located in Coral Springs. We are a family-owned company with over 25 years of experience. Our pricing is competitive and fair, and we provide free in-home estimates. We are available to help you with any cleaning needs. Affordable, Professional, Carpet Cleaning, Tile and Grout Cleaning, Upholstery Cleaning and Air Duct Cleaning
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The cost of taxing the rich has become the central debate in the "fiscal cliff" talks.
But the costs of not getting a deal might be even worse for the country – including the wealthy, according to a new study.
The population of millionaires in the United States would fall by 315,000, or 6 percent, next year if the country goes over the fiscal cliff and the economy goes into recession as a result, according to a new study from WealthInsight. The total fortunes of millionaires would fall by $240 billion if the cliff's combination of tax cuts and automatic reductions in government-spending were to take effect.
If the United States can solve the cliff deal and chalk up 2 percent growth next year, the number of millionaires would grow by 230,000, and their combined fortunes would soar to by over $1 trillion, WealthInsight's study said.
That sounds like good news, but WealthInsight, the London-based wealth-research firm, said that if the threat of the cliff didn't exist at all, the millionaire population would grow by 443,000 and their fortunes would grow by $1.6 trillion.
Still, even if the cliff is avoided, the solution could also drag down the number of millionaires.
"There also remains the possibility of a fiscal slope: a growth-sapping bargain which prompts a damaging degree of fiscal tightening," Wealth Insight said.
That uncertainty, along with looming tax hikes, will lead the wealthy to put their money next year into different types of investments. Alternative investments (hedge funds, private equity) will be the top-performing asset class for millionaires between now and 2016, according to WealthInsight.


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Crime in the Workplace
When you go to work, don't leave your crime prevention sense at home. Almost any crime that can happen at home or in your neighborhood, can happen in the workplace. But common-sense prevention skills can help make life at work safer for all.
Office Theft
- Keep your purse, wallet, keys, or other valuable items with you at all times or locked in a drawer or closet.
- Check the identity of any strangers who are in your office -- ask whom they are visiting and if you can help them find that person. If this makes you uncomfortable, inform security or management about your suspicions.
- Always let someone know where you'll be -- whether it's coming in late, working late, going to the photocopier or mail room, going out to lunch or a meeting.
- If you bring personal items to work such as a coffee pot, a radio, or a calculator, mark them with your name or initials and an identification number.
- Report any broken or flickering lights, dimly lit corridors, doors that don't lock properly, or broken windows. Don't wait for someone else to do it.
- Be discreet. Don't advertise your social life or vacation plans and those of your coworkers to people visiting or calling your place of work.
Trouble Spots Reception Area
- Is the receptionist equipped with a panic button for emergencies, a camera with a monitor at another employee's desk, and a lock on the front door that can be controlled?
Stairwells & Out-of-the-Way Corridors
- Don't use the stairs alone. Talk to the building manager about improving poorly lighted corridors and stairways.
- Don't get into elevators with people who look out of place or behave in a strange or threatening manner. If you find yourself in an elevator with someone who makes you nervous, get off as soon as possible.
- Attackers can hide in stalls and corners. Make sure restrooms are locked and only employees have keys. Be extra cautious when using restrooms that are isolated or poorly lighted.
After Hours
- Don't work late alone. Create a buddy system for walking to parking lots or public transportation or ask security to escort you.
Parking Lots or Garages
- Choose a well-lighted, well-guarded parking garage.
- Always lock your car and roll the windows up all the way.
- If you notice any strangers hanging around the parking lot, notify security or the police. When you approach your car, have the key ready.
- Check the floor and front and back seats before getting in.
- Lock your car as soon as you get in -- before you buckle your seat belt.
Workplace Violence
Violence in the workplace takes many forms, from raised voices and profanity or sexual harassment to robbery or homicide. While homicide in the workplace is rising, 75 percent of work-related homicides are committed by unknown assailants while committing a robbery or other crimes. Despite media hype, the attacker usually isn't a disgruntled coworker. To assess a workplace's vulnerability to violence, ask yourself these questions.
- Is your office secure?
- Do you have easy-to-use phone systems with emergency buttons, sign-in policies for visitors, panic buttons, safe rooms, security guards, office access controls, good lighting, and safety training?
- Does your employer take care in hiring and firing? Before hiring, are employment gaps, history, references, and criminal and educational records thoroughly examined? Are termination procedures defined clearly with attention to advance notice, severance pay, and placement services?
- Could you recognize potentially violent employees? Signs of stress that could erupt into violence include:
- Depression
- Frequent Absences
- Talking in a Louder-Than-Normal Voice
- Being Startled Easily
- Increased Irritability and Impatience
- Concentration and Memory Problems
- Are you encouraged to report unusual or worrisome behavior? Is there a clear, written policy that spells out procedures in cases of violence and sanctions for violators? Make sure you know to whom you should report unusual behaviors.
- Do you work in a supportive, harmonious environment? Is there a culture of mutual respect? Does your employer provide an employee assistance program (EAP)?


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SoberPixels Red Racer could be the next generation of F1 Racing Cars. It's a futuristic car that blends the aesthetic of F1 racing car and neon-powered engine. The body of the car has been designed extremely low, suitable for indoor racetracks, perhaps that's why the designer uses white rubber tires. Sleek and sharp lines of the car's body makes it runs extremely fast. Ready, Set, Go!
Designer : Ronald de Groot


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Selena Gomez Reaching Out to Justin Bieber's Mom Pattie Mallette + Swagger Coach Ryan Good Following Arrest
If you're wondering what Selena Gomez is up to since Justin Bieber got arrested, she's not bothering trying to talk to him. Instead, she's reaching out to others in Bieber's inner circle, including his mom, Pattie Mallette, and his onetime best friend and swagger coach, Ryan Good.
Perrie Edwards + Zayn Malik Can't Wait to Have Kids
Little Mix cutie Perrie Edwards and One Direction hottie Zayn Malik have been keeping their marriage plans under wraps though they're open about their engagement. But Edwards has opened up a bit about the kind of wedding she wants -- and we bet Mixers and Directioners will be pleased! And for more than one reason.
Rumor: Beyonce + Jay Z to Open 2014 Grammys With 'Drunk in Love'
UPDATE: Check out Beyonce + Jay Z's Grammy performance here!
Beyonce and Jay Z will collaborate onstage at the 2014 Grammy Awards tomorrow night (Jan. 26), and now we know what hip-hop's power couple will perform! Well, maybe.
Miley Cyrus + Cosmopolitan Mock Mike Huckabee's Libido Comments
Normally if you heard Miley Cyrus complaining that she couldn't control her libido, you'd assume she was just trying really hard to be edgy again. But this time, Cyrus is actually making a hilarious, timely and important point.
Adele Working With Phil Collins on New Record
We can't wait for the new Adele album, and neither can the rest of the world. Now we have more details on the privacy-loving star's new project. She'll be working with fellow Brit singer-songwriter Phil Collins!
Justin Bieber Leaves Miami for Los Angeles With Dad Jeremy Bieber [VIDEO]
Justin Bieber is finally leaving South Beach and heading home to Los Angeles after what's been, at best, a tumultuous stay in Miami. And rumor has it Biebs isn't looking forward to landing.
Josh Lucas + Jessica Ciencin Henriquez to Divorce
Josh Lucas and his wife, Jessica Ciencin Henriquez, are set to divorce.
Demi Lovato Dishes on Selena Gomez + What to Expect From Her Neon Lights Tour [VIDEO]
Selena Gomez made sure to be very public with her latest outing with BFF Demi Lovato -- because it was just as her on-again off-again boyfriend, Justin Bieber, got arrested. The camera-happy starlet seems to be doing well, and Lovato dished on their friendship, as well as what to expect from her own Neon Lights tour.
Miley Cyrus Smoking Weed Drove People to Quit Their Jobs
Miley Cyrus smoking weed is pretty annoying for everyone who realizes it's actually not that big of a deal, nor is it rebellious or unique or badass. But apparently Miley Cyrus' marijuana use still bothers some people, so much that they actually quit their own jobs over it. What happened?
Justin Bieber May Not Have Been Drunk Nor Drag Racing After All
Beliebers, hold out hope! Justin Bieber may not have been drag racing nor driving under the influence after all ... maybe.


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February 7, 2013
Division of Continuing Education staff present at Kansas Workforce Summit
Sue C. Maes, dean of continuing education, and Jennifer Pfortmiller, site manager for K-State affiliate 2+2 Kansas programs, presented "Degree Completion as an Economic Development Strategy" at the 12th annual Kansas Workforce Summit, Jan. 23-24, in Topeka.
Maes and Pfortmiller presented the session along with Jackie Vietti, former president, Butler Community College; Suzanne Lane, chair, Local Education Adult Resource Network, or LEARN-Wichita; and Randy Myers, vice president of student services, Hutchinson Community College.
The presentation discussed why Kansas needed to educate the workforce for economic development, and how the south central area developed a model where businesses, community colleges, technical schools and universities joined together to provide these opportunities. K-State representatives highlighted the university's statewide effort to offer higher education opportunities to residents wherever they live.


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Reagan's Philosophical Fusionism
Everyone on the right these days claims Ronald Reagan. Neoconservatives, libertarians, social conservatives, moderates, and the rest each have a favorite quote. He was a complex man with complex thoughts, allowing every ideologue to pick out-of-context phrases. Even many of those claiming a multifaceted Reagan transcending a single ideology simplify him through his concept of an ideal city uniting the contending ideologies through politics and power.
A prominent conservative leader just told the largest annual gathering of the faithful that their mission was to rebuild Reagan's city upon a hill, to make Jonathan Edwards' idealistic dream vibrant once again—to change the world as they did earlier under the former president. The speaker urged paleoconservatives pushing "a more restrained foreign policy," neoconservatives wanting a more active foreign policy, libertarians demanding "homosexual rights," and "everyone else" (social conservatives were not addressed) who supported "reduced federal spending" to unite in applying their "basic values and principles to our fast-changing world."
Reagan's image of a three-legged stool was urged by the speaker as:
a graphic way of describing the successful effort of Frank Meyer and William F. Buckley, Jr. to turn a movement from a sort of philosophical debating club into a political force. They thought that people who differed on some important policies or emphasized very different issues could be persuaded to work together. Meyer called it "fusionism" and argued successfully that these factions shared basic values—freedom, free markets, and traditional values—and the same enemies … equally threatened domestically by a growing and intrusive government … and internationally by the world communist movement.
Notice that these different ideologies were called factions that needed to be convinced to work together. But they also supposedly shared basic values. Which is it? Traditionalism was mentioned in the quote but it was not given content and otherwise was ignored in discussing policies or preferences. There was talk of "values and principles" but none about community or family. Communism was mentioned as the glue that held the three-legged stool together, but now conservatives are divided on national defense too. The only value cited that they did agree upon was: "It worked—fractious as ever, conservatives began to come together and actually elect people to public office." That is what conservatives were to fuse upon once again. The city on the hill needs public officials and the job of the conservative movement is to elect them.
That exhortation had little to do with principles. Beneath some rhetoric, it was about power, force, elections. Conservatism was specifically distinguished from a debating club on philosophy and was congratulated for moving beyond one to become a political force. Here conservatism was not about an ideal city, which was a hoped-for result, but about creating a political coalition. Coalitions do not require principles at all. In fact, the idea of a natural coalition between libertarian-individualists and traditionalist-conservatives was developed by the great political scientist Aaron Wildavsky, who was a Democrat. He argued there were four types of political cultures and the liberal-egalitarians and nationalistic-fatalists were naturally in coalition against libertarians and traditionalists, although circumstance and practice could divide the types differently. As the conservative spokesman noted, libertarians, traditionalists, and others can be persuaded to work together, if only to defeat enemies both consider worse. It is valid to label this fusing a conservative coalition, but a coalition that is based on power rather than principles, on votes rather than values. Philosophical principles and values are something entirely different.
How did Meyer, Buckley, and Reagan think about fusionism? Fusionism to them was a philosophical concept. It was a philosophy that considered the principles of freedom and tradition as naturally interrelated in a tension whose resulting moral force created Western civilization and its American offshoot. Tension (the term Meyer preferred to fusion) was a force that could hold traditionalism and freedom together, which made both part of one potential whole. It was not the unitary logic of an ideology from a single principle deducing necessary conclusions, but a synthesis, a synthesis that Reagan said described modern conservatism. Yes, he conceived a city on a hill, but one always fighting to uphold both principles; for he also argued "freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."
The idea that both principles were required was lost when progressivism insisted that tension, balance of power, duality, pluralism, and decentralization could all be unified under a single science of administration. By mid-20th century, the triumph of progressivism was complete. Both freedom and tradition would be subject to science. What Meyer et al.—explicitly following F.A. Hayek—did was to give the old ideal of synthesis new life. In fact, it did take a "debating club" at Buckley's old National Review to draw out its conclusions. The freshly stated fusionist synthesis inspired a generation on the right and did become successful enough that some of its principles did have a brief life under Reagan's administration. Once he left, however, political leaders only interested in the coalition as a step to power lost the sense of interrelatedness between the two principles and became confused and then exhausted. That is the problem today.
Even under Reagan there were factions that only viewed their own single ideology as the whole. There was always a coalitional aspect to "fusionism," but those leading the coalition at the beginning understood the necessity of both freedom and tradition. They also understood that while communism was the preeminent threat, it was—as the founding conservative document, the Sharon Statement, put it—only "at present" the greatest threat. Anti-communism was not a principle but one aspect of a tradition that justified self-defense, a pragmatic necessity to preserve freedom and tradition. Likewise, libertarianism by itself had no rooted value structure even to minimize theft under the guise of reducing inequality. Traditionalism alone could become authoritarian and rigid but, as libertarian Hayek noted, free societies require customs and traditions to sustain them.
While factions will always exist, leaders of such single ideological perspectives necessarily will be viewed as partisans of that faction and will not be accepted as movement-wide leaders. Only one who internalizes the necessity of both liberty and tradition can make it work. That was Reagan's secret to success and the only path forward. He was not a carpenter of stools but a synthesizer of Western wisdom, recognized as such by a sufficient number to be granted power. What the conservative movement needs most today is more philosophical debating clubs and less talk about power. If it gets the former right, the latter will follow.
Donald Devine is senior scholar at the Fund for American Studies, the author of America's Way Back: Reconciling Freedom, Tradition and Constitution, and was Ronald Reagan's director of the Office of Personnel Management during his first term.


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Rick and Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche are both busy guys, so it's not very often the two hang out for a night of cooking, cocktails and music. But when those nights do happen, watch out—they get epic.
On Monday, August 18th, you can see for yourself: You're invited to hang out at Rick's gorgeous Bucktown home, where you'll enjoy a beautiful meal cooked by Rick, indulge in hand-shaken margaritas, experience a one-night-only "music experience" performed by Glenn…and go home with a very rare bottle of tequila.
This uncommonly awesome evening is a fundraiser for the Frontera Scholarship Fund at Kendall College, which provides tuition to the culinary school for Mexican-American students. Tickets are $750 per person and can be purchased by calling Jen at 312-661-0498. But hurry—we're keeping this party small, intimate and very special.


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A matter of pride.
I'm not ashamed to say to myself: beautiful.
I'm really proud of my work on Smoke and Guns, it's very nice to be able to do what you like and feel satisfied by what you've acomplished so far.
It's going to be a very log month, a lot of things will change.
Until June, enjoy the cover.
More will come later.
Thursday, April 28, 2005
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005
THINGS TO COME - part two.
Here are two preview pages we just did yesterday to talk to publishers and editors about the project. The first two "real" drawings we did for this new book. The first one is mine and the one below is my brother's.
This is going to be a blast!
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Things to come.
This is the very first image for a new story. We have been thinking about this for a bit, but just last week the idea struck and we set what this story would be about. Maybe it's true what they say, that good things come for those who wait.
We waited, and the idea came.
Now it's doing it time. It's drawing every page, it's talking with editors, it's talking with everyone involved with this new project. Tomorrow is our first group meeting, and all is rolling now towards July.
San Diego in July, a new anthology will be released at the Comicon, called Gunned Down. Lots of stories, 200 pages long. It won't come unnoticed, I'm sure, but it's always good to start spreading the word when you can. I'm doing a story, my brother is doing another, and that's not even the beginning.
Only one first image, and I'm already excited.
That's really what's great about doing comics.
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Thursday, April 14, 2005
Third movement: the fall
Falling is inevitable.
Aching is inevitable.
Loving is inevitable.
We have fallen into the world,
Waiting for someone that
Will catch us and will ask if
We want to dance.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Do you already know about Roland?
Roland - days of wrath was the my first published work in the US. It was written by Shane Amaya, published by Terra Major and is available in the internet by our good friends at Kepri.com.
It was originally published as a four issues mini-series for which I did the first and third chapters. My brother did the second and final chapter. Working together with my brother always makes me try harder and give it my best, with our brotherly competition working out in the most positive way.
It was done in full color, and the colorist responsible for it was no other than Steve Oliff, better known for his work on AKIRA. I grew up enjoying his work on the Cosmic Odyssey, on that World's Finest mini-series Steve Rude drew, even on the first issues of Spawn. But his work on AKIRA just blew me away. The mood, the attention to detail and how much the colors added to the story, that will always be one of my references for colors in comic books.
Anyway, Roland is, above all things, a very good story. A really well told story. a story that I felt was so good that I agreed drawing it. The fact that we became friends with the writer during the making of the comic was only a plus to that story.
What is it about? Well, it's about Charlemagne's army. It's also about betrayal, about faith, about loyalty and revenge. It's a great story of sacrifice for a greater good, and of consequences upon times of war.
If you're interested, why not give it a try?
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Friday, April 08, 2005
First movement: the waiting
She waits for him every night,
And every night he comes.
While he doesn't arrive
She suffers
thinking he's not coming anymore.
Second movement: the longing
After he left,
she couldn't
go back to sleep.
Her body missed
the touch,
the heat,
the embrace.
Without his tenderness,
the silence became
she heard music
till dawn.
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Tuesday, April 05, 2005
The tribute.
Only time will tell how comics will be now that Will Eisner is gone. The day will come when new artists won't have heard of him (as many already haven't) and when his name will only be one more among a lot of "those old guys from the early days". Still, for the time being, all of us have Will Eisner as the reference of the artist that believed in what he was doing and that never quit. He was not the for the glory. He was there for the stories.
His stories, for all the love and hard work he put into then, will survive most which will fade. They already have, and will keep on surviving, reaching new readers every year.
In the spirit of remembering the way he lived instead of the way he died, the Comic Book Artist magazine number 6 is dedicated to him, presenting tons of tributes from people from all corners of the comic book world. The solicitation for it is up at Diamond and and the press release is the following:
COMIC BOOK ARTIST (VOL 2) #6: The Will Eisner Tribute Issue
Edited by Jon B. Cooke
The CBA All-Star Tribute Honoring the Great Sequential Art Master,
Will Eisner. This double-sized memorial issue features remembrances,
art and essays by over 200 artists, writers, editors, friends and fans -- all
celebrating the man, his superlative 70-year career, and his
unprecedented impact on the art form. Behind a Dave Gibbons cover,
this mammoth special contains tribute art by an incredibly diverse group
of creators, including Mike Allred, Murphy Anderson, Gabriel Ba, Donna Barr, Frank
Cho, Darwyn Cooke, Geof Darrow, Jack Davis, Mike Diana, Irwin Hasen,
Gilbert Hernandez, Alex Horley, Everett Raymond Kinstler, David
Levine, Joe Linsner, Mark Martin, Mike Mignola, Fabio Moon, Eric Powell, Mike
Ploog, Trina Robbins, Spain Rodriguez, Alex Ross, Craig Thompson,
Tim Vigil, among many others. Included are interviews with Art
Spiegelman, Jules Feiffer and Scott McCloud, on their friendships with
Eisner and his influence on the future of comics. Plus testimonials and
anecdotes shared by a wide array of comic book pros, including Alan
Moore, Neil Gaiman, Stan Lee, Richard Corben, Joe Kubert, David
Mazzucchelli, Joe Simon, and many others. Join us to experience a
spirit of good will as the creator's legion of admirers celebrate the life
and mourn the passing of a true giant, Will Eisner. -- $14.50 (US), 192
pages (24 pages in full-color), Perfect Bound, Magazine, Diamond
Order Code: APR053289
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Friday, April 01, 2005
Talk the talk.
Another one of my brother's great drawings. Simple, yet so complete, so real. You feel you're there, and those people are breathing, standing up not really straight, for they have flaws, just like us.
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Nectar Spokane Wine Events October
Ahhhh, Fall…changing colors, cool temperatures, pumpkins, trick-or-treat, turkey dinner, family and lots of red wine. As the season changes and we move indoors it becomes the time to get together with friends. The Nectar wineries are busy hauling in the 2011 harvest creating the perfect beverage for you to enjoy in 1-3 years. While this year's grapes become a future celebratory drink, we hope you'll enjoy the October events at Nectar. Enjoy life with friends, drink happy.
Join us Friday and Saturday (10/7,8) as Northwest Cellars visits with new wines, bubbly tasting, and special discounts. Get 15% off of NW Cellars bottles and 25% off of mix and match cases.
October 6-8
THURSDAY – Join us as we welcome Molly Allen of KZZU every Thursday in October. Enjoy a selection of $5 glasses of wine, sparkling wine mixers, prizes, and 1/2 price appetizer plates with the purchase of a bottle.
FIRST FRIDAY – This month we are featuring the abstract art of artist Jeffrey Lloyd. Jeffrey's painting style develops into an array of shapes and layers. The inspiration for his paintings are spiritual and emotional, having to do with faith and friendship. The occasional life experience is also evident giving a realistic interpretation to his paintings. Accompanying Jeffrey's art is the amazing musical styling of Darin Hilderbrand. Artist reception starts at 5pm and music begins at 6:30.
October 13-15
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Awareness Weekend. Join us as we donate $1 back from every bottle sold
Two of my favorite musicians are playing at Nectar this weekend. Friday, enjoy the music of Karrie O'Neill, Saturday we welcome Michael and Keleren Millham of Sidhe. Music starts at 6:30. Bring a date, bring some friends, start with a glass, stay for the whole bottle.
October 19-23
WEDNESDAY – A rare Wednesday open for the annual Project Beauty Share Beauty Bash. Project Beauty Share is an initiative to collect cosmetics and beauty products and distribute them through local agencies to women of all ages whose circumstances do not allow them to afford these products. The Beauty Bash is $10 and gets you a glass of wine, light bites and a special gift. Donations are encouraged. Please visit Project Beauty Share for a list of the needed items.
THURSDAY – More Molly Allen of KZZU
FRIDAY / SATURDAY – The "reserve flight" returns. Taste through 5 of our highest end wines. The $10 tasting features wines that are $40-50 and are rarely available for tasting. Treat yourself to something special. Saturday, stop by for music with Ken Davis; 6:30-9:30.
SUNDAY – Our second wine and dine event is going to be a fun educational class pairing 8 wines with various appetizer dishes and small plates. Learn the characteristics found in wine aromas and flavors with this fun and unique exploration using common scents and flavors found in your local grocery store. Whether you are well versed in wine or are just beginning your enological journey, you'll have fun and come away with new information on how wine is made, what to look for, how to wine taste, and basic food and wine pairing techniques.
October 27-29
THURSDAY – The final Thirsty Thursday with KZZU's Molly Allen. We'll have prizes, drink specials, bottle specials and more to help you with your Halloween weekend.
SATURDAY – Join us for a wine tasting painting class with Tipsy Muse. We've finally rescheduled this event where you can paint the Tuscan Landscape while enjoying a glass of grapes. The three hour, artist guided class is a fun way to explore your creative side.


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Having your meetings in innovative-designed meeting rooms pays off a lot. In terms of satisfying your clients, this is one effective way of doing it.
When you are to hold a meeting, it is wise that you find a place that will give your business associates the professional feel they seek, an ambiance that is inviting and a place that is well equipped to address the things that your clients may need while in the business meeting. Being able to provide these to you clients gives you the edge and will more likely be a start of a new partnership of an extension of a business contract you may have with them.
Renting out meeting rooms is an option for you, should you don't have a traditional office wherein a small to medium size business conference room is usually built in. Also if the size of the attendee is quite big then the more you need to rent out a space that will be able to accommodate them. It is not hard find though as there are several meeting rooms for lease that can provide the needs your business colleagues as well as of the meeting to be done. These rooms can also be useful should there are events your company plans to organize.
There is not need to add to the crowd a cafe has just so you can discussion your dealings with your clients. Opting these meetings rooms will be able to provide you a way better place to have your transactions done with comfort and at no base at all or be bother by the sounds or noise of the nearby tables. And one other edge these rooms have is the fact that they are located in prime business places, which all the more the clients would prefer.
Booking your meetings in the said places would not be that difficult for there are personnel in the serviced offices that will accommodate you call as well as your queries. For the inclusions of the varying rooms they have, you will be educated on that for you to decide which one to pick. For the amenities, they got free information technology support ready for you and of course free wi-fi for use.
All in all having these serviced meeting rooms are your best choice and the perfect workaround if your place is too small to accommodate your clients. As for impressing potential clients, this is where you can best take them


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Scientology Russia Goodwill Tour completes 19 thousand-mile, four-year Trans-Siberian journey
A team of Scientology Volunteer Ministers from Russia have completed a 19 thousand-mile journey across ten time zones—a journey that began in Moscow four years ago. Since August 2006, these volunteers have traveled the length of the Trans-Siberian Railway giving lectures, seminars and courses to some 8,000 individuals on communication skills, Study Technology, conflict resolution, salvaging marriages, raising happy children and fourteen other subjects contained in The Scientology Handbook. In each location they trained Volunteer Ministers and established groups to continue to help their communities.
On August 1, 2006, a twenty-member Scientology Volunteer Minister team boarded the Trans-Siberian Railroad at the first station on the line—the Yaroslavskiy station in Moscow—and began a trek across 19 thousand miles and ten time zones to the Pacific Ocean seaport of Vladivostok. In the summer months they set up their signature yellow tent—a 3,400-square-foot pavilion with lecture rooms, classrooms, and a display describing the Volunteer Minister program. In winter months, when temperatures never rose above zero for months on end, they provided their services in rented halls.
Trans-Siberian Goodwill Tour leader Sergey Nikitin said, "We are here to provide effective help—that is our purpose. Our motto is 'Something Can Be Done About It,' and that means not only in times of major disasters and emergencies, but in everyday life."
The Volunteer Ministers delivered lectures and seminars and provided classes and one-on-one help in Perm, Ekaterinburg, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Zheleznogorsk, Ulan-Ude, Chita, Ussuriysk, Khabarovsk and Vladivostok, in hospitals, orphanages, government offices, fire stations, invalid centers, veteran associations, businesses, clubs and women's groups.
To ensure the courses and assistance would continue to be available with neighbor helping neighbor, in each city the Volunteer Ministers trained local residents as Volunteer Ministers and helped them establish groups to sustain the assistance after the tour moved on.
Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard created the Volunteer Minister program in answer to escalating crime and violence in the early 1970s, to provide practical tools for engendering understanding and compassion. The program has expanded to over 200 thousand Volunteer Ministers worldwide who have served at 185 disaster sites, including Ground Zero after 9/11, the Southeast Asia tsunami, hurricane Katrina and Haiti.


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SAN FRANCISCO – These days, the price of a San Francisco home can easily top a million dollars. But one savvy investor has bought up a whole street in the city's most exclusive neighborhood for a mere $90,000.
Trouble is, some of the extremely wealthy residents of Presidio Terrace were not aware their street was up for sale and are not pleased it has been sold.
Presidio Terrace is an oval shaped street sealed off by a gate from the tony Presidio Heights neighborhood. Lined with towering palm trees and multimillion dollar mansions, the street has been home, over the years, to famous residents including Sen. Dianne Feinstein and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi.
Thanks to a city auction stemming from an unpaid tax bill, Bay Area real estate investor Michael Cheng, and his wife Tina Lam, bought the street and now own the sidewalks, the street itself and other areas of "common ground" in the private development that, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, has been managed by the homeowners association since at least 1905.
Cheng says reaction to the sale has been less than neighborly.
"I thought they would reach out to us and invite us in as new neighbors," Cheng told The Associated Press. "This has certainly blown up a lot more than we expected."
It turns out the homeowners association for Presidio Terrace failed to pay a $14-a-year property tax, something that owners of all 181 private streets in San Francisco must do, the Chronicle reported.
So the city's tax office put the property up for sale at the cost of $994 in an online auction to regain unpaid back taxes, penalties and interest. The couple eventually won the street with a $90,100 bid in an April 2015 auction.
Scott Emblidge, the attorney for the Presidio Homeowners Association, said in a letter to the city that the owners failed to pay because the tax bill was mistakenly being sent to the address of an accountant who hadn't worked for the homeowners association since the 1980s, the Chronicle reported.
Emblidge said the residents didn't know their street was put on the auction block, let alone sold, until May when a title search company hired by Cheng and Lam reached out to ask if any residents had interest in buying back the property.
That was one of several options Cheng and Lam have considered for making the investment pay off.
Another option is to charge residents to park on their street — and rent out the 120 parking spaces that line the grand circular road.
"As legal owners of this property, we have a lot of options," Cheng said, adding that nothing has been decided.
The matter could be headed for court.
Last month, the homeowners petitioned the Board of Supervisors for a hearing to rescind the tax sale. The board has scheduled a hearing for October. The homeowners association has also sued the couple and the city, seeking to block Cheng and Lam from selling the street to anyone while the city appeal is pending.


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My beautiful friend Jenni Radosevich is a DIY guru (remember her amazing monthly DIY column for InStyle Magazine?) and she has just published a genius book for the fashionista meets craft maven. I was so thrilled when Jenni invited me to shoot some of the beauty images and cover for her book, I grew up doing DIY projects with my Grandma in Texas so it was a lot of fun seeing how home projects have come along the past 20 years!
Below are some outtakes from the shoot and if you have some time to kill this summer, why not make something?!


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Let's start by defining terms. Multi-master replication means that applications update the same tables on different masters, and the changes replicate automatically between those masters. Remote sites mean that the masters are separated by a wide area network (WAN), which implies high average network latency of 100ms or more. WAN network latency is also characterized by a long tail, ranging from seconds due to congestion to hours or even days if a ship runs over the wrong undersea cable.
With the definitions in mind we can proceed to the lessons. The list is not exhaustive but includes a few insights that may not be obvious if you are new to multi-master topologies. Also, I have omitted issues like monitoring replication, using InnoDB to make slaves crash-safe, or provisioning new nodes. If you use master/slave replication, you are likely familiar with these topics already.
1. Use the Right Replication Technology and Configure It Properly
The best overall tool for MySQL multi-master replication between sites is Tungsten. The main reason for this assertion is that Tungsten uses a flexible, asynchronous, point-to-point, master/slave replication model that handles a wide variety of topologies such as star replication or all-to-all. Even so, you have to configure Tungsten properly. The following topology is currently my favorite:
- All-to-all topology. Each master replicates directly to every other master. This handles prolonged network outages or replication failures well, because one or more masters can drop out without breaking replication between the remaining masters or requiring reconfiguration. When the broken master(s) return, replication just resumes on all sides. All-to-all does not work well if you have a large number of masters.
- Updates are not logged on slaves. This keeps master binlogs simple, which is helpful for debugging, and eliminates the possibility of loops. It also requires some extra configuration if the masters have their own slaves, as would be the case in a Tungsten Enterprise cluster.
One approach you should approach with special caution is MySQL circular replication. In topologies of three or more nodes, circular replication results in broken systems if one of the masters fails. Also, you should be wary of any kind of synchronous multi-master replication across sites that are separated by more than 50 kilometers (i.e. 1-2ms latency). Synchronous replication makes a siren-like promise of consistency but the price you pay is slow performance under normal conditions and broken replication when WAN links go down.
2. Use Row-Based Replication to Avoid Data Drift
Replication depends on deterministic updates--a transaction that changes 10 rows on the original master should change exactly the same rows when it executes against a replica. Unfortunately many SQL statements that are deterministic in master/slave replication are non-deterministic in multi-master topologies. Consider the following example, which gives a 10% raise to employees in department #35.
UPDATE emp SET salary = salary * 1.1 WHERE dep_id = 35;
If all masters add employees, then the number of employees who actually get the raise will vary depending on whether such additions have replicated to all masters. Your servers will very likely become inconsistent with statement replication. The fix is to enable row-based replication using binlog-format=row in my.cnf. Row replication transfers the exact row updates from each master to the others and eliminates ambiguity.
3. Prevent Key Collisions on INSERTs
For applications that use auto-increment keys, MySQL offers a useful trick to ensure that such keys do not collide between masters using the auto-increment-increment and auto-increment-offset parameters in my.cnf. The following example ensures that auto-increment keys start at 1 and increment by 4 to give values like 1, 5, 9, etc. on this server.
auto-increment-offset = 1
Neither Tungsten nor MySQL native replication can resolve conflicts, though we are starting to design this capability for Tungsten. You need to avoid them in your applications. Here are a few tips as you go about this.
Master/slave replication has its discontents, but at least sorting out messed up replicas is simple: re-provision from another slave or the master. No so with multi-master topologies--you can easily get into a situation where all masters have transactions you need to preserve and the only way to sort things out is to track down differences and update masters directly. Here are some thoughts on how to do this.
- Ensure you have tools to detect inconsistencies. Tungsten has built-in consistency checking with the 'trepctl check' command. You can also use the Percona Toolkit pt-table-checksum to find differences. Be forewarned that neither of these works especially well on large tables and may give false results if more than one master is active when you run them.
- Consider relaxing foreign key constraints. I love foreign keys because they keep data in sync. However, they can also create problems for fixing messed up data, because the constraints may break replication or make it difficult to go table-by-table when synchronizing across masters. There is an argument for being a little more relaxed in multi-master settings.
- Switch masters off if possible. Fixing problems is a lot easier if you can quiesce applications on all but one master.
- Know how to fix data. Being handy with SQL is very helpful for fixing up problems. I find SELECT INTO OUTFILE and LOAD DATA INFILE quite handy for moving changes between masters. Don't forget SET SESSION LOG_FILE_BIN=0 to keep changes from being logged and breaking replication elsewhere. There are also various synchronization tools like pt-table-sync, but I do not know enough about them to make recommendations.
(Disclaimer: My company sells support for Tungsten so I'm not unbiased. That said, commercial outfits really earn their keep on problems like this.)
7. Test Everything
Cutting corners on testing for multi-master can really hurt. This article has described a lot of things to look for, so put together a test plan and check for them. Here are a few tips on procedure:
- Set up a realistic pre-prod test with production data snapshots.
- Have a way to reset your test environment quickly from a single master, so you can get back to a consistent state to restart testing.
- Run tests on all masters, not just one. You never know if things are properly configured everywhere until you try.
- Check data consistency after tests. Quiesce your applications and run a consistency check to compare tables across masters.
Before moving to a multi-master replication topology you should ask yourself whether the trouble is justified. You can get many of the benefits of multi-master with system-of-record architectures with a lot less heartburn. That said, an increasing number of applications do require full multi-master across multiple sites. If you operate one of them, I hope this article is helpful in getting you deployed or improving what you already have.
Tungsten does a pretty good job of multi-master replication already, but I am optimistic we can make it much better. There is a wealth of obvious features around conflict resolution, data repair, and up-front detection of problems that will make life better for Tungsten users and reduce our support load. Plus I believe we can make it easier for developers to write applications that run on multi-master DBMS topologies. You will see more about how we do this in future articles on this blog.